Behavioural NeurologyJanuary 28, 2014Ognyan I Kolev, Spaska O Georgieva-Zhostova, Alain Berthoz
Background: Depersonalization and derealization are common symptoms reported in the general population. Objective. The aim of the present study was to establish the relationship between anxiety and depersonalization and derealization symptoms in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders. Methods: Twenty-four vestibular patients with anxiety and 18 vestibular patients without anxiety were...
The emergence of self-consciousness depends on several processes: those of body ownership, attributing self-identity to the body, and those of self-location, localizing our sense of self. Studies of phenomena like the rubber-hand illusion (RHi) and out-of-body experience (OBE) investigate these processes, respectively for representations of a body-part and the full-body. It is supposed that RHi...